Cancer risk is raised among older people living with HIV/AIDS reported in a recent study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases. A recent study which aimed to evaluate the cancer risk in older people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWH), (age ≥50 years) identified 10371 cancers among 183542 older PLWH. Furthermore, study reported that risk was significantly increased for Kaposi sarcoma [standardized incidence ratios (SIRs), 103.34], non-Hodgkin lymphoma (3.05), Hodgkin lymphoma (7.61), cervical (2.02), anal (14.00), lung (1.71), liver (2.91), and oral cavity/pharyngeal (1.66) cancers, and reduced for breast (0.61), prostate (0.47), and colon (0.63) cancers.
Remarkably, the study revealed that SIRs decreased with age, excess absolute risks were higher for some cancers, and demonstrated a greater absolute excess in cancer incidence among older PLWH. Overall, study suggests that high risk in the…
